In the news this morning

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Good morning. Here are a few of the top immigration stories from the weekend and for today.

The New York Times reported on the resistance to various planned mosques around the country, including in Temecula. Great story.

The NYT also reports on how amid an increase in deportations, students who came to the United States illegally as children are being spared.

In a related story, the Arizona Daily Star reports on the case of Marlen Moreno Peralta, a young mother whose case had become a cause célèbre among DREAM Act supporters and who has been granted a last-minute reprieve from deportation.

USA Today visits Apache Junction, Ariz., a border town where the arguments over the newly implemented state anti-illegal immigration law SB 1070, as viewed by residents, aren't so simple.

In this interesting item in The Huffington Post, a North Carolina sociologist debunks myths about birthright citizenship, and also discusses a fascinating Supreme Court decision from 1898 regarding the 14th Amendment as applied to a San Francisco-born son of Chinese immigrants.

From the Associated Press via Salon: Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona is doing quite well in that state's gubernatorial race due to her very-tough-on-illegal-immigration stance.

Lastly, though she lives abroad in the jungle and is not an immigrant: Little Ms. Dora Marquez, aka Dora the Explorer, is the subject of a great story in the Los Angeles Times. She is celebrating her 10th year on television.